Buffing or polishing wheel



(No Model.)

P. A. PHILLIPPI. BUFFING 0R POLISHING WHEEL.

No. 583,545. Patented Jun 1,1897.

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UNITED STATES FRANK A. PHILLIPPI, OF POTTSTOVVN PATENT FFICE.

, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- I'IALF TO GABRIEL L FELDMAN, OF NEWARK,NEW JERSEY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Application filed February 24,1896 To all whom it floaty concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK A. PHILLIPPI, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pottstown, in the county of Montgomery and State ofPennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBuffing or Polishing Wheels; and I do hereby declare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same, reference be ing had to the accompanying drawings, and toletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

This invention relates to improvements in buffing or polishing wheels,and has for some of its objects to provide a strong and serviceablebuffing-wheel from which there shall be but very little dirt and dustwhen used and to provide a wheel in which the danger of burning isreduced to a minimum, the dust arising being non-combustible.

The invention therefore consists in the novel construction of polishingor buffing wheel, to be hereinafter fully described, consisting,essentially, of an arrangement of layers or circular disks of a fibrouspaper made from wood-pulp and which is commonly known to the trade asbuckskin fiber but other like fibrous material may be used, some of suchdisks, or all of them, being provided with a preparation of a ceraceousnature, as will be hereinafter fully set forth.

In a buffing or polishing wheel made according to my invention the woodfiber or fibrous paper used will wear evenly around the circumferentialedges of the several disks, will not burn, as the dust arising from thewheel is very slight, will wear evenly, and hence the wheel can beeasily trued with a block of wood covered with sandpaper, which is heldagainst the edge of the revolving wheel.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying sheet of drawings, inwhich- Figure l is a face view of my novel construction of bufiing orpolishing wheel; and Fig. 2 is a Vertical section of the same,illustrating in position upon the mandrel the several disks of fibrouspaper, with an arrangement of disks treated with paraffin-wax,

Patent No. 588,545, dated June 1, 1897.

. Serial No. 580,324- (No model.)

'stearin, adamantine,spermaceti, orothersubstance of a ceraceous nature.Fig. 3 is a face view of one of the disks detached; and Fig.

4 is a vertical section of a buffiug-wheel made from layers or disks ofa fibrous paper, but the oiled or waxed disks having been dispensedwith.

Similar letters of reference are employed in all of the above-describedviews to indi- 6o cate like parts.

In said drawings, A indicates the buffingwheel, which is arranged on amandrel to, having the end plates 1) b and nut c to secure the completebuffing-wheel in position upon the mandrel.

The wheel proper consists of any number of circular disks or layers 61,made from a fibrous paper commonly known to the trade as buckskin fiber,but other suitable fibrous paper made from a wood-pulp may be used. Thetwo outer layers or disks d and d of said wheel are made from the samematerial, but are prepared with paraffin-wax, stearin, adamantine,spermaceti, orany other suitable 7 5 substance of a ceraceous nature, togive the said fiber disks the appearance of parchment. By treating thesaid fibrous material with the paraffin-Wax or other suitable substanceof a like nature in a heated state and then allowing it to get cold thesaid fibrous disks become stiff and strong, but still are suficientlypliable to be useful.

In constructing the buffing-wheel the two outer layers or disks d and dare coated in the manner stated, and at suitable intervals between thedisks d I have arranged other disks or layers 623, also of a fibrouspaper, and which have likewise been prepared with paraffin-wax or othermaterial of a like nature. 0

The many advantages in constructing a buffing-wheel in the mannerhereinabove stated are, first, that the two outer layers or disks which,owing to their treatment with the wax become comparatively stiff, form a5 proper protection to the non-coated layers or disks d; secondly, thatby the intermediatelyarranged layers or disks d which are like Wisecoated with a wax when the wheel is running at a great speed, usuallyfrom two thousand eight hundred to three thousand revolutions, the heatfrom the article generated by frictional contact during the polishingoperation causes the wax to melt and distribute itself upon thenon-coated layers or disks cl, which helps to retain or hold thepolishing material, such as rouge composition or cake-emery, producing agreat saving of the material as well as a saving of the wheel itself;thirdly, by the use of the disks of fibrous paper in place of the cottondisks heretofore used the edge of the wheel can be readily trued byemploying a block of wood with coarse sandpaper, which is held againstthe edge of the revolving wheel, and, lastly, owing to the nature of thefibrous material used there will be no dirt or dust and there is nodanger of combustion, as the material will not burn like cotton lint.

In Fig. 4 I have illustrated a construction of buffing-wheel in which Ihave dispensed with the waxed layers or disks (1 which construction ofwheel is used for very fine buffing and polishing.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. A bunting-wheel,comprising therein, a series of disks or layers, of a fibrous paper,prepared with a substance of a ceraceous nature, substantially as andfor the purposes set forth.

2. A buffing-wheel, comprising therein, a series of disks or layers, asd, of fibrous paper, a pair of outer layers or disks, as (1 and dprepared with paraliin, and layers or disks 61 between said disks orlayers d, also prepared with paraffin, substantially as and for thepurposes set forth.

In testimony that I claim the invention set forth above I have hereuntoset myhand this 20th day of February, 1896.

FRANK A. IHILLIPPI.

\Vitnesses:

JOHN A. \VEBER, H. D. BAYER.

